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Volume 351:509-510 July 29, 2004 Number 5
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Fibromuscular Dysplasia

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by Slovut, D. P.
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To the Editor: Slovut and Olin (April 29 issue)1 provide a valuable review of the current concepts of fibromuscular dysplasia. To their discussion regarding the craniocervical arteries should be added the topic of intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage related to fibromuscular dysplasia. In our experience, more or less pronounced angiographic signs of fibromuscular dysplasia are frequently apparent in the context of ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms. The numbers in the literature for the incidence of unruptured aneurysms in patients with fibromuscular dysplasia vary widely, from 7 percent to more than 50 percent.2 Specific forms of intracranial aneurysms such as giant . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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